The Misfits, a Catholic men’s book club in Stillwater, Minnesota, has met monthly for 13 years. (See companion story here. Here’s a list of the titles they’ve read:
September, 2002
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
October, 2002
Silence by Shusako Endo
November, 2002
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
December, 2002
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Conner
January, 2003
The Ball and the Cross by G. K. Chesterton
February, 2003
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
March, 2003
Morte D’Urban by J.F. Powers
April, 2003
The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
May, 2003
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
June, 2003
The Woman of the Pharisees by Francois Mauriac
July, 2003
The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
August, 2003
Misfits Summer Recess: No Book Meeting
September, 2003
The Brother’s Karamazov (Part I) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
October, 2003
The Brother’s Karamazov (Part II) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
November, 2003
The Brother’s Karamazov (Part III) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
December, 2003
The Brother’s Karamazov (Part IV) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
January, 2004
Father Elijah by Michael D. O’Brien
February, 2004
The Ballad of the White Horse and Lepanto by G. K. Chesterton
March, 2004
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
April, 2004
Officers and Gentlemen by Evelyn Waugh
May, 2004
Unconditional Surrender by Evelyn Waugh
June-August 2004
Misfits Summer Recess: No Book Meeting
September, 2004
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
October, 2004
Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
November, 2004
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
December, 2004
Lord of the World by Fr. Robert Hugh Benson
January, 2005
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
February, 2005
The Keys of the Kingdom by A. J. Cronin
March, 2005
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
April, 2005
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
May, 2005
Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset
June- July, 2005
Misfits Summer Recess: No Book Meeting
August, 2005
Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife by Sigrid Undset
September, 2005
Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Sigrid Undset
October, 2005
Mr. Blue by Myles Connolly
November, 2005
Helena by Evelyn Waug
December, 2005
In This House of Brede by Rumor Godden
January, 2006
Viper’s Tangle by Francois Mauriac
February, 2006
The Cypresses Believe in God (Part I) by Jose Maria Gironella
March, 2006
The Cypresses Believe in God (Part II) by Jose Maria Gironella
April, 2006
The Cypresses Believe in God (Part III) by Jose Maria Gironella
May, 2006
The Cypresses Believe in God (Part IV) by Jose Maria Gironella
June, 2006
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
July, 2006
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
August, 2006
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
September, 2006
The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain
October, 2006
The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain (Continued)
November, 2006
The Spear by Louis de Wohl
December, 2006
The Citadel by A. J. Cronin.
January, 2007
Memento Mori by Murial Spark
February, 2007
The Thanatose Syndrome by Walker Percy
March, 2007
A Burnt-out Case by Graham Greene
April, 2007
Edmund Campion by Evelyn Waugh
May, 2007
Saint Thomas Aquinas by G.K. Chesterton
June/July, 2007
Saint Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton
August,/September, 2007
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie
October, 2007
Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hanson
November, 2007
The Life of St. Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd
December, 2007
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Conner
January, 2008
The Master of Hestviken: The Axe (Volume One) by Sigred Undset
February, 2008
The Master of Hestviken: The Snake Pit (Volume Two) by Sigred Undset
March, 2008
The Master of Hestviken: In the Wilderness (Volume Three) by Sigred Undset
April, 2008
The Master of Hestviken: The Son Avenger (Volume Four) by Sigred Undset
May, 2008
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
June, 2008
Annual Chesterton Conference (June 12-14, 2008)
July, 2008
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
August, 2008
Catholics by Brian Moore
September, 2008
Exiles by Ron Hanson
October, 2008
The Four Men: A Farrago by Hilaire Belloc
November, 2008
The Issa Valley by Czeslaw Milosz
December, 2008
A Commentary on the Sonnets of G. M. Hopkins by Father Peter Milward, S.J.
January, 2009
The Viaduct Murders by Fr. Ronald A. Knox
February, 2009
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Green
March, 2009
The Samurai by Shusako Endo
April, 2009
The Way of A Pilgrim by Anonymous
May, 2009
The Devil’s Advocate by Morris West
June, 2009
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
July, 2009
The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
August, 2009
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green
September, 2009
The Death of a Pope by Piers Paul Read
October, 2009
Manalive by G. K. Chesterton
November, 2009
The Stripping of the Altars (Part 1) by Eamon Duffy
December, 2009
The Stripping of the Altars (Part 2) by Eamon Duffy
January, 2010
The Stripping of the Altars (Part 3) by Eamon Duffy
February, 2010
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C. S. Lewis
March, 2010
Dear James by Jon Hassler
April, 2010
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
May, 2010
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
June, 2010
The Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy
July, 2010
The Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Fyodor Dostoevsky
August, 2010
The Prudence of the Flesh by Ralph McInerny
September, 2010
The Black Robes by Brian Moore
October, 2010
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
November, 2010
Dimiter by William Blatty
December, 2010
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
January, 2011
Loss and Gain by Blessed John Henry Newman
February, 2011
Unnatural Death by Dorothy Sayers
March, 2011
Dracula by Bram Stoker
April, 2011
The Divine Comedy: Hell by Dante Alighieri
May, 2011
The Divine Comedy: Hell (Cont.) by Dante Alighieri
June, 2011
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri
July, 2011
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory (Cont.) by Dante Alighieri
August, 2011
The Divine Comedy: Paradise by Dante Alighieri
September, 2011
The Divine Comedy: Paradise (Cont.) by Dante Alighieri
October, 2011
Poor Banished Children by Maria De Fiorella
November, 2011
A World Lost by Wendell Berry
December, 2011
My Antonia by Willa Cather
January, 2012
A Canticle for Leibowitz by William M. Miller, Jr.
February-March 2012
A Postcard from the Volcano by Lucy Beckett
April, 2012
He Leadeth Me by Fr. Walter J. Ciszek, S.J.
May, 2012
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
June, 2012
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
July, 2012
Summer Break
August, 2012
Summer Break
September, 2012
The Time Before You Die by Lucy Beckett
October, 2012
The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love and Terror in Algeria, by John W. Kiser
November, 2012
Fabiola or The Church of the Catacombs (Part I) by Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman
December, 2012
Fabiola or The Church of the Catacombs (Part II) by Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman
January, 2013
The Confessions (Books I-VII) by St. Augustine of Hippo
February, 2013
The Confessions (Books VII-XIII) by St. Augustine of Hippo
March, 2013
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
April, 2013
The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest by Father John Gerard, SJ
May, 2013
The Path to Rome by Hillaire Belloc
June-August, 2013
Summer Break
September, 2013
Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy
October, 2013
All Hallows’ Eve by Charles Williams
November, 2013
King Lear by Williams Shakespeare
December, 2013
Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
January, 2014
Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
February, 2014
That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
March, 2014
Callista by John Henry Newman
April, 2014
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
May, 2014
Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams
June, 2014
A Midsummer’s Nights Dream by William Shakespeare
July, 2014
The Father’s Tale (Part I) by Michael O’Brien
August, 2014
The Father’s Tale (Part II) by Michael O’Brien
September, 2014
The Leaves are Falling by Lucy Beckett
October, 2014
In the First Circle (Part I) by Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn
November, 2014
In the First Circle (Part II) by Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn
December, 2014
Mr. Ives Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
January, 2015
The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy
February, 2015
Waiting for God by Simone Weil
March, 2015
In the Light of Christ by Lucy Beckett
April, 2015
In the Light of Christ (Continued)
May, 2015
In the Light of Christ (Continued)
June, 2015
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
July, 2015
In the Light of Christ (Concluded)
August, 2015
The Stream & The Sapphire by Denise Levertov
September, 2015
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
October, 2015
A Tale of Two Cities (Books One and Two) by Charles Dickens
November, 2015
A Tale of Two Cities (Book Three) by Charles Dickens
December, 2015
Unless You Become Like This Child by Hans Urs von Balthasar
“Journey of the Magi” a poem by T. S. Eliot
January, 2016
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
February, 2016
The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton
March, 2016
Letters of Flannery O’Conner: The Habit of Being by Flannery O’Conner
April, 2016
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
May, 2016
The Quiet American by Graham Greene